I enjoyed that (I had a slight sense of deja vu over the theme, but if I'm right I hope nobody will give the details until after the closing date). I did it in rather an odd order. With about half the...
Searching this site hasn't found any other threads for this puzzle, so here goes! I thought this was the toughest puzzle for some time. It took me several hours last night before the penny finally...
OK, 3 left. 25A - O'Casey gave him the 'Needle' (6) I have ??G?N? 6D - Demigoddess, portrayed in half articles (9) I haveH?M?T?E? 21D - It's great woman prophetically bore a son, who lived and died...
How sad to see another farewell crossword. Not too difficult a solve, but the only place I could find the quotation was in a presentation about legal drafting!...
This is becoming rather sad - the third 'Goodbye crossword' in succession. What fine final words from Syd Lexis. Our thanks to him for years of enjoyment.
Stuck on just the 2 - 11 across (3,3) Hughe's game in Room at the Top?
T?H, ?O? and 25 down (4) Model takes directions becoming a murderess ?E?S - can anyone assist please?...
Fairly easy gridfill, followed by some head-scratching over the instruction. A lucky search in onelook.com's reverse dictionary led to a possibility; my reaction was at first "no way", followed by...
Another rather gentle exercise with easier than normal clues (perhaps perforce) and a not too complex endgame, neatly tieing up all of the thematic material. Will be interesting to see how solvers...
Nice gentle cluing from eXternal - first Listener I think. This will be a good starter for new or newish solvers but shouldn't detain the regulars for too long. All definitions sorted, just a bit of...
This was a very clever idea by Samuel. Despite getting the theme quite quickly and also deducing the quotation, it took me quite a while to solve all the clues and to construct the grid. But there was...
Please can someone give me a hint on how your supposed to work out the clues going round the sides.
http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/prize/26166/print...